Mike, I always used to work on the basis of 3 years for conventional desktop drives but the laptop drives seem to be much better so, depending on usage, about 5 years I guess but after that time you would probably find it to be too small anyway.
Lots of manufacturers no longer state the MTBF for drives any more as I guess it is fairly meaningless to most people. Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 16 November 2016 21:02 To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives On 2016-11-15 10:13, Paul Hill wrote: > On 14 November 2016 at 19:46, > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings fellow Profoxers! >> >> I see some external SSD drives on this page: >> http://www.newegg.com/External-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-2022?Tid=11694 >> >> My laptop is a maybe 4 years old and is running out of local disk >> space. >> I've got another laptop I can migrate to but I was thinking of just >> extending and still using this one yet (because I love it) and using >> an external HD would take care of my space issues...at least for >> now...and give me another area to send backups. >> >> My question: I know SSD drives are 20x faster reportedly, but would >> that still apply if it's an EXTERNAL drive? I understand that using >> the USB 3.0 port is better than the older USB 2.x ports and earlier >> for transfer rates. > > Personally I would just buy a replacement internal SSD and a large > external HDD. > Samsungs are nice. > > Clonezilla can be used to transfer your OS to the new drive. How long do you normally use a laptop hard drive before replacing it (before disaster strikes it)? [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
